Libre-SOC's 180nm Power ISA Test ASIC, developed in conjunction with Chips4Makers and Sorbonne Université’s LIP6, has been submitted to Imec’s MPW Shuttle Service for fabrication in TSMC 180nm. The team that collaborated on the project has a wealth of expertise in software engineering and ethical hardware...
Baseboard management controllers (BMCs) are a mainstay in data centers. They enable remote monitoring and access to servers, and they’re responsible for the rise of “lights out management.” But from a hardware perspective, there has been little innovation in this space for years. BMC processors...
Christopher Sullivan, Assistant director for biocomputing, Oregon State University - Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing The world has been changed by the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) to quickly understand data as it relates to our environments. These AI workloads are enabled by machine learning...
By Ganesan Narayanasamy, Leader, OpenPOWER Academic Discussion Group and IBM POWER enablement Academic and research organizations have always been leaders in pushing the boundaries of science and technology, and work closely with companies to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. As the leader of the...
The OpenPOWER based Microwatt CPU core has been selected to be included in the Efabless Open MPW Shuttle Program. Microwatt’s inclusion in the program represents a lower barrier to entry for chip manufacturing. It also demonstrates the ability to create fully designed, fabricated chips relying...
The OpenPOWER Foundation’s Academic Discussion Group hosted its 5th annual workshop on November 6, 2020. The annual event is intended to facilitate interaction and engagement between Academic institutions, with a focus on supporting developers from different application areas of scientific computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence. The...
By Abhishek Jadhav, Lead Open Hardware Developer Community (India) and Freelance Tech Journalist After the opening of the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA) last August, there have been many developments from IBM and its community. Some major contributions include OpenPOWER’s A2I and A2O POWER processor core. The OpenPOWER...
James Kulina, executive director, OpenPOWER Foundation Can you believe it’s already the end of year, as we’re getting ready to close out the year and wave goodbye to 2020? It’s certainly hard for me to believe that it’s only been six months since I joined the...
By Brad Thomasson, Cognitive Software Engineer, IBM After announcing the newest IBM POWER10 processor at the Hot Chips 2020 in August, our IBM Cognitive Systems Simulation team is now proud to present the IBM POWER10 Functional Simulator. This publicly available simulation environment is designed to educate developers,...
Today at OpenPOWER Summit 2020, OpenPOWER Foundation announced two key technologies contributed by IBM to the open source community. A2O POWER processor core, an out-of-order follow-up to the A2I core, and associated FPGA environment Open Cognitive Environment (Open-CE), based on IBM’s PowerAI to enable improved...